LAWRENCE SUMMERS IS FIFTY-SIX

LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS 

b. November 30, 1954 

LARRY SUMMERS 

THE DEPARTING DIRECTOR 

OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S  

NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL 

for more, see here  

LIGACHEV MAKES NINETY

YEGOR KUZMICH LIGACHEV

b. November 29, 1920

YEGOR LIGACHEV MEETS THE PRESS AFTER BORIS YELTSIN WALKS OUT OF THE 28TH CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION (CPSU), THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW, JULY 12, 1990

For more, see "Pivot," Chapter One of

RUSSIA REDUX

CONDOLEEZZA RICE b. November 14, 1954

CONDOLEEZZA RICE,

b. November 14, 1954,

HAS A BIRTHDAY AND A BOOK

CONDOLEEZZA RICE AT THE PUTIN-BUSH PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE 2006 G-8 SUMMIT, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

Condoleezza Rice has written a personal memoir first, before tackling the hard issues of her time and performance as President George W. Bush's National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.

Rice, an erstwhile Soviet scholar, is shown above at the first, and so far only, G-8 summit to be held in Russia, talking to her counterpart, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. To her far right is Igor Ivanov, Secretary of the Russian Security Council (national security adviser); to her immediate right is Stephen Hadley, Rice's successor as U.S. National Security Adviser. Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett sits behind the Secretary of State.

JOHN HAMMOND b. November 13, 1942

JOHN HAMMOND 

b. November 13, 1942 

JOHN HAMMOND 

HARVARD STADIUM, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 

PRE-CONCERT (1970) 

John Hammond is still singing the blues, after all these years: "For four-plus decades, Hammond has, like many itinerant country-blues artists before him, played acoustic guitar with a fast-fingered finesse that leaves audiences marveling at his technique. Like [Robert] Johnson, Hammond sometimes gives the impression he’s playing two guitars simultaneously – one holding down the bass line, and the other delivering fiery rhythm work and solos." – Russell Hall 

More Hammond these days, here and here and here and here and here 

(JANIS JOPLIN at Harvard Stadium, here and here and here and here) 

ANNE SEXTON b. November 9, 1928

ANNE SEXTON 

November 9, 1928- 

October 4, 1974 

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1967 

(Live or Die) 

more 

Anne Sexton 

here